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While traditional liberals and conservatives encompass 32 and 16 percent of the college population, respectively, the poll adds two new categories—“religious centrists?? and “secular centrists??—to describe college students’ political affiliations...
Religious centrists, an ethnically diverse group that comprises 23 percent of the students polled, support affirmative action and believe that religion should play a more important role in national politics. Secular centrists??29 percent of the students—oppose affirmative action, support gay marriage and advocate a less intrusive, less religiously oriented government...
...centrists??from the DLC to candidates such as Lieberman and Kerry—tell us they know what Repulicans want: a Bush-Dean showdown in ’04. Dartboard doesn’t dispute that Republican strategists such as Karl “Darth” Rove have not been subtle in expressing their desire for Dean to win the primary. But let’s be realistic: Karl Rove is a sly devil, a crafty political animal. If he really did want the Democrats to nominate Dean, would he be so careless...
It’s the waffly, spineless centrists??not Dean—who would be hung out to dry by the Rove machine, and Gore’s endorsement reflects a recognition of that reality. He would know: His dull, centrist campaign, aimed at the swing voters upon whom the DLC is forever fixated, turned off three and a half million liberals, who flocked to Ralph Nader and handed the election to Bush. Are many on the left going to bother to schlep to the polls to vote for a Democrat who kowtowed to the President...
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